William B. Jones, Jr., is the author of Petit Jean: A Wilderness Adventure; the editor of Robert Louis Stevenson Reconsidered: New Critical Perspectives; and a contributor to The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies and Icons of the American Comic Book. He has written introductions for more than 100 reissued titles in the revived Classics Illustrated and related series.

• Table of ContentsPreface     CRITICAL OVERVIEWSThe Eyeball of the Dawn: Can We Trust Stevenson’s Imagination?      The Art of Writing and the Pleasure of Reading: Stevenson as Theorist and Popular Author    Reanimating Stevenson’s Corpus      Stevenson and Islands: Scotland and the South Pacific     APPROACHES TO DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDECloser Than a Wife: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll’s Significant Other     The Hand of Hyde     Engineering Influences on Jekyll and Hyde     ESSAYS ON OTHER WORKSThe Damned Thing in Boards and a Ticket on Its Behind: An Inland Voyage  A World Made for Liars: Stevenson’s Dynamiter and the Death of the Real    Scottish Gothic: Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae, and The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner     Writing Towards Home: The Landscape of A Child’s Garden of Verses    Helter-Skeltery: Stevenson and Theatre      Prayers at Sunset     BIOGRAPHY, POPULAR CULTURE, AND PERSONAL RESPONSEThe Squire and the Gamekeeper: RLS and Miss Adelaide Boodle      Forty-Eight Pages and Speech Balloons: Robert Louis Stevenson in Classics Illustrated  Discovering Mr. Stevenson: A Personal Chronicle     Index